Until August 27, Duque Arango Galería presents Arqueología del oficio, an exhibition by Colombian artist Sair García that invites to a deep reflection on the effects of violence, displacement and oblivion, from an intimate, technical and poetic point of view.
This series starts from a cinematographic composition to construct images that interrogate time and memory. Through a meticulous visual language where detail is evidence and atmosphere is a form of archive, Sair García reconstructs fragments of a shared history, marked by structural violence and the abandonment of certain bodies, trades and landscapes.
The works that make up Arqueología del oficio are inspired by everyday scenes that, in their apparent simplicity, reveal complex layers of meaning. These pieces combine the pictorial and the narrative to tell us about a marginal territory that is rarely represented with care and beauty.
This exhibition at the gallery retakes and expands the show presented by the artist at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), within the framework of Secuencias: la imagen-montaje, an exhibition curated by Eugenio. In this context, Sair García’s work stands out for its ability to generate tension between the fixed image and the implicit narrative.
For this series, Sair García appropriates the codes of cinema, photography and classical painting to elaborate a visual poetics that subverts the traditional way of representing violence. There are no explicit images or overflowing scenarios: there is silence, contemplation and a moving fidelity to the craft. The artist understands painting as a form of slow resistance, as an archeology that digs into the traces of the recent past to reconfigure our relationship with it.
In that sense, Archaeology of the craft is also a reflection on the very act of creating images, on what it implies to represent others, to recover what has been lost and translate it through a rigorous practice.
The artist proposes a pause. A space to observe with attention that which often vanishes among the headlines: the faces that remain, the gestures that resist, the stories that have not yet been fully told. The exhibition will be on view at Duque Arango Galería until August 27th.
